System Engineer Technical Lead

ALTA IT has a Direct Hire position open for a Systems Engineer Technical Lead.

Onsite - Chantilly, VA or Alexandria, VA

Must Have Active Top Secret Security Clearance

Security is Required

ALTA IT is looking for a System Engineer Technical Lead to join our team responsible for the integration, operations, and sustainment of various operational and in-development systems.

This client has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the modernization of a geospatial product supporting mission critical operations. The candidate will provide leadership to invigorate technical innovation and must be willing to drive smart change to support a collaborative and innovative culture to provide our customer with optimal solutions that meet their strategic goals. A successful candidate will have experience with the Microsoft technology stack, AWS services, and related software and networking design and implementation.

Responsibilities :

Primary responsibilities will involve taking a leadership role in system assessment, recommendations, and solution implementation.

• Become a subject matter expert (SME) for the baseline, with the ability to communicate the system's features, architecture, roadmap, and limitations to a variety of audiences
• Decompose requirements, use cases, and need statements into epics and features with clearly defined acceptance criteria that will be assigned to agile development teams
• Take part in migration of a legacy systems to model cloud-based architectures, leveraging modern cloud native technologies.
• Ensure the security, reliability, and maintainability of internally facing applications and services
• Ability to clearly describe and analyze a problem and to articulate a solution
• Provide hands-on technical support to the team (systems engineering, software development, testing)
• Execute analysis of alternatives (AoA) and prototypes to determine the design of new system features and capabilities
• Participate and provide subject matter expertise in technical exchange meetings and other customer or stakeholder forums
• Manage the system requirements and maintain technical requirement documents
• Create and communicate design artifacts to the team to ensure applications and services are built to support the business and architecture objectives
• Provide subject matter expertise and support agile development teams in the continuous integration of epics and features

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